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Kitty Gordon

Kitty Gordon

Born: 1878-04-22 • Folkestone, Kent, England, UK

From Wikipedia

Her first professional stage appearance was at the Princes Theatre in Bristol in 1901 in the touring production of San Toy. She appeared in The Duchess of Dantzic in 1903 and the operetta Véronique in 1904. In 1909, she moved to New York, where she became a regular on the New York stage.

She made her first film appearance in 1916 in As in a Looking Glass. During the next three years she made twenty-one films. On 19 October 1911, she starred in the debut of composer Victor Herbert's musical The Enchantress at the New York Theatre. She continued her stage work from 1919 onwards. She also made television appearances.

On 25 June 1920, during a Vaudeville performance in Chicago with her husband, Jack Wilson, and her daughter, Vera Beresford, Gordon's stage gun discharged a live round and shot Joseph A. Hack, an offstage acrobat.

She died in a nursing home in New York in 1974.

Filmography
Playthings of Passion poster
Playthings of Passion
1919 • Helen Rowland
Mandarin's Gold poster
Mandarin's Gold
1919 • Betty Cardon
Adele poster
Adele
1919 • Adele Bleneau
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Tinsel
1918 • Princess Sylvia Carzoni
Stolen Orders poster
Stolen Orders
1918 • Felicia Gaveston
The Purple Lily poster
The Purple Lily
1918 • Marie Burguet
The Wasp poster
The Wasp
1918 • Grace Culver
The Volunteer poster
The Volunteer
1917 • Self - Cameo Appearance
National Red Cross Pageant poster
National Red Cross Pageant
1917 • Bruges - Flemish episode
Her Hour poster
Her Hour
1917 • Rita Castle
Beloved Adventuress poster
Beloved Adventuress
1917 • Juliette La Monde
Forget-Me-Not poster
Forget-Me-Not
1917 • Stefanie Paoli
Vera, the Medium poster
Vera, the Medium
1917 • Vera
The Crucial Test poster
The Crucial Test
1916 • Thanya
Her Maternal Right poster
Her Maternal Right
1916 • Nina Seabury
As in a Looking Glass poster
As in a Looking Glass
1916 • Lila Despard